“Al-Qassam Cemetery” is the largest home for the bodies of Palestinian and Arab martyrs
In Haifa, the Israeli "Ahzakot" seeks to seize the largest historical cemetery
During the storming of the "Al-Qassam Cemetery", the occupation forces.
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Palestinians refute allegations of selling land from the cemetery.
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Khaled Daghash: "The company's plan to erect the iron fence wall inside the cemetery's land confirms the reality of the occupation's ambitions and goals to seize the entire land of the historic cemetery."
The history of Al-Qassam Cemetery is more than 100 years old.
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To the southeast of the city of Haifa, located in the Palestinian coastal north, is the abandoned town of Sheikh, which was emptied of its original inhabitants, leaving only the graves of Palestinian martyrs, and the remains of those who refused to be forcibly displaced before and during the events of the Palestinian Nakba in 1948, so that their graves bear witness to their existence. In Palestine.
The cemetery of the martyr Izz al-Din al-Qassam, in the abandoned town of al-Sheikh, is considered the largest cemetery of martyrs in Palestine, with an area of 44 dunums. years.
The ambitions of the occupation are embodied through the plan of the Israeli company “Keror Ahzakot” to storm the “Al-Qassam Cemetery” and take control of its land.
Blur 100 years of history
The “Al-Qassam Cemetery” is more than 100 years old, as it contains in its graves the remains of the deceased in the village of Al-Sheikh, and the coastal villages and towns of Haifa District. His participation in addressing the British occupation forces.
A member of the Haifa Independence Endowment Committee, lawyer Khaled Daghash, told "Emirates Today" in an exclusive interview: "During the past few days, the (Ahzakot) company issued threats against the cemetery of the martyr Izz al-Din al-Qassam, the content of which is that it submitted a request to the Israeli authorities to build a wall on it. An iron fence was formed again, on an area of 14 dunums of the cemetery’s land.”
He added, "The Israeli (Ahzakot) insists on seizing the aforementioned part of the cemetery, with the approval of several parties, including the Israel Lands Administration and the Israeli Ministry of Finance."
He points out that “the company’s plan to erect the iron fence wall inside the cemetery’s land confirms the reality of the occupation’s ambitions and goals to seize the entire land of the historic cemetery, as it is a strategic area overlooking the Carmel Mountains in Haifa, the largest of Palestine’s.”
In a related context, Daghash says: “The Haifa Endowment Committee discovered in 2013 that all the lands of (Al-Qassam) were confiscated, as the occupation forces began to control parts of it, the first part with an area of 14 dunams, and the occupation recognizes it, and the second with the same area, the department claims The lands of Israel are owned by them, and the last part was all that was left of the total cemetery area, which belongs to the Israeli company that claims ownership of the cemetery’s land.”
After discovering the attempt to seize the cemetery, the Haifa Endowment Authority took a series of judicial steps, which continued until its case reached the Supreme Occupation Court, which rejected its demands, asking it to reach an understanding with the Ahzakot Company, which claims that the land belongs to it.
Legal violations
The town of Sheikh, which is built on the ruins of its abandoned homes, the Israeli city of Nesher, witnessed during the past February and March attempts to exhume graves by settlers to protect the Israeli forces. The Ahzakot company claims that it bought 14 dunams of it from the Israel Land Administration, or the development authority, according to an initial agreement in the fifties of the last century, followed by agreements at later times, according to attorney Daghash.
A member of the Haifa Independence Endowment Committee says: “The occupation claims that it bought the cemetery in the fifties and sixties of the last century from the person in charge of the Haifa Endowment at the time, but this is a lie and slander. from selling it to Israeli authorities.
Daghash asserts that "the land of (Al-Qassam) may not be sold in any way, as it is an Islamic endowment land, and no one has the right to dispose of it," pointing out that "what the Israeli company is conducting is a real looting of the land of the historic cemetery."
He pointed out that "the occupation is engaged in a series of legal and field practices and violations against the cemetery of the martyr Izz al-Din al-Qassam, in an attempt to legitimize the confiscation process."
• After discovering the attempt to seize the cemetery, the Haifa Endowment Committee took a series of judicial steps that continued until the case reached the Supreme Occupation Court, which rejected the committee's demands, and referred it to understanding with the "Ahzakot" company, which claims ownership of the land.
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